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Smart Dosing: A Mobile Application for Tracking the Medication Tray-Filling and Dispensation Processes in Hospital Wards

Nauman A. Khan, Natalia Díaz Rodríguez, Riitta Danielsson-Ojala, Hanna Pirinen, Lotta Kauhanen, Sanna Salanterä, Joachim Majors, Sebu Björklund, Kimmo Rautanen, Tapio Salakoski, Ilona Tuominen, Ivan Porres, Johan Lilius, Smart Dosing: A Mobile Application for Tracking the Medication Tray-Filling and Dispensation Processes in Hospital Wards. In: Juan Carlos Augusto, Klaus-Hendrick Wolf (Eds.), 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell'14), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1–10, Springer, 2014.

Abstract:

Traditionally in hospitals the task of dispensing medications to patients can be strenuous for the hospital staff, as many variables have to be considered, such as searching for a particular medicine in shelves, finding alternative active components and possible interactions, verifying the amount or dosage of the medicine, keeping in mind the intake timings and other meticulous details. In addition to that, the dispensation process is the combination of many manual and computerized steps which do not function together. In this work, we have gone a step forward towards automating the whole process by combining information from different sources and providing it on a single centralized rich internet application. The application Smart Dosing helps nurses in performing the filling and dispensing of the medicine tray more efficiently. The application allows nurses to keep history of the medication distributed and dispensed to patients, as well as it makes the whole process smoother by improving the patient safety. A survey was conducted among nurses to validate the application prototype usability.

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@INPROCEEDINGS{inpKhDxDaPiKaSaMaBjRaSaTuPoLi14a,
  title = {Smart Dosing: A Mobile Application for Tracking the Medication Tray-Filling and Dispensation Processes in Hospital Wards},
  booktitle = {6th International Workshop on Intelligent Environments Supporting Healthcare and Well-being (WISHWell'14)},
  author = {Khan, Nauman A. and Díaz Rodríguez, Natalia and Danielsson-Ojala, Riitta and Pirinen, Hanna and Kauhanen, Lotta and Salanterä, Sanna and Majors, Joachim and Björklund, Sebu and Rautanen, Kimmo and Salakoski, Tapio and Tuominen, Ilona and Porres, Ivan and Lilius, Johan},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
  editor = {Augusto, Juan Carlos and Wolf, Klaus-Hendrick},
  publisher = {Springer},
  pages = {1–10},
  year = {2014},
  keywords = {smart dosing, medication tracking, dispensing},
  ISSN = {0302-9743},
}

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